Search Results - "Contemporary artist"
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Kabbalah and creativity: from ancient mystical texts to contemporary artistic practice
Published 2025“…In Part 2, I explore how four contemporary artists – Daniel Shorkend, Beth Ames Swartz, Susan Leshnoff, and Mirta Kupferminc – understand the relationship between Kabbalah and creativity themselves. …”
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'Une chaîne invisible’: contemporary artistes, feminist self-representation, and the work of Annie Ernaux
Published 2020“…This dissertation studies the work of French author Annie Ernaux in comparison with that of three contemporary artistes – Louise Bourgeois, Annette Messager, and Yayoi Kusama – inspired by Ernaux’s own concept of ‘une chaîne invisible’. …”
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Kit Messham-Muir: ’Claudia Parducci: The Space Between Us’, 2015
Published 2015“…Contemporary artist Claudia Parducci spent two years developing a body of work for an exhibition called The Space Between Us, which opens in Ochi Projects, Los Angeles in January 2016. …”
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Networking for Artists: Max Presneill, curator, Los Angeles, 17 September 2017
Published 2017“…Max Presneill is a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist, curator and museum director. Since our first interview in 2012, I've interviewed Max several times, and her practice is currently the focus of a more in-depth research project looking into studio practice today.…”
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360° Video: Interview with Claudia Parducci, artist, Los Angeles, 16 September 2017
Published 2017“…This is the second half of a two-part interview with Claudia, a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist. Since our first interview in 2012, I've interviewed Claudia several times, and her practice is currently the focus of a more in-depth research project looking into studio practice today. …”
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Interview with Max Presneill, artist, curator and museum director, Los Angeles, 17 September 2017
Published 2017“…Max Presneill is a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist, curator and museum director. Since our first interview in 2012, I've interviewed Max several times, and her practice is currently the focus of a more in-depth research project looking into studio practice today. …”
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Tagging as Lazy Technique: On the Politics of Art as Work
Published 2018“…Given that the figure of the contemporary artist is so wedded to the flows of international capital, it is worthwhile considering how the scratch tagger unconsciously engages in what the contemporary theorist Maurizio Lazzarato has referred to as “lazy techniques:” that is, forms of practice that are not circumscribed within the dominant logics of utility and productivity and are, accordingly, potentially resistant to the logics underpinning neoliberal capital.…”
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Bad Faith Intersubjectivity: The phantom-subjective image in virtual reality contemporary art
Published 2018“…There is no center, no hint of any kind of centralized organization, no traces of the hierarchy essential to traditional cities.’ 1 Twenty years later, Shaun Gladwell, contemporary artist and member of the Bad Faith VR collective created AR15 Field Strip, a 360-degree video set in a suburban garage in Los Angeles, depicting a blindfolded man, kneeling on the concrete floor as if in prayer, as he field strips an AR15 assault rifle – the type of firearm used in the 2016 Orlando nightclub massacre. …”
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It’s too hard to love Primavera 2014 at Sydney’s MCA
Published 2014“…Primavera is the Italian word for springtime, and each spring since 1992 the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney has a curated selection of emerging artists under 35 years old – in the springtime of their careers. 23 years ago, the very first Primavera exhibition included Mikala Dwyer, who went on to become one of Australia’s most notable contemporary artists. She is back this year as guest curator for Primavera 2014.…”
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Ben Quilty at the Saatchi Gallery … things just got interesting
Published 2014“…A solo show at the Saatchi doesn’t so much launch the careers of major contemporary artists; it means an artist has already entered orbit.…”
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Issues and problems in Malaysian contemporary visual arts
Published 2016“…In fact, Malaysian contemporary artists appear to have insufficient intellectualism values and less discourse activities. …”
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Interview with What, artist, Katoomba, Australia, 8 September 2017
Published 2017“…I regard What as one of Australia's most underrated contemporary artists, as well as one of the most varied and interesting artists I know. …”
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Artistic practices in contemporary Asia
Published 2018“…Under the geographical premise of Asia, this issue focuses on the selection of papers that address the artistic practice that linked art to the broader shifts of political, social and public spheres. The contemporary artistic practices in Asia have long evolved and have grown exponentially since the 1990s, with the increasing regional biennials and triennials, the establishment of new contemporary art museums and the success of various Asian artists. …”
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Am I still not a man and a brother?: protest memory in contemporary antislavery visual culture
Published 2013“…Finding some of the same limitations of paternalism, dehumanisation and sensationalism as dominated much of the first antislavery movement’s visual culture, the article nonetheless identifies a liberatory aesthetic and a protest memory in the antislavery imagery of several contemporary artists, including Charles Campbell and Romuald Hazoume`.…”
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Experiencing Afghanistan, Samstag Museum, Adelaide, 11 April 2014
Published 2014“…Shaun Gladwell is one of Australia’s most internationally acclaimed contemporary artists, recently directing on The Turning (2013), a feature film anthology of Tim Winton short stories, and representing Australia at the Venice Biennale (2009). …”
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Against Forgetting: Australian Artists' Engagements With Histories of Place
Published 2014“…This article considers settler culture’s imperative to forget the colonial past in relation to the work of four contemporary artists who call for remembrance as a path to national healing. …”
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The war itself: Cornelia Parker’s official Election Art, post-2016 democracy and the weaponisation of social media
Published 2021“…Introduction When a snap general election was called in the United Kingdom in 2017, Cornelia Parker, one of that nation’s most prominent and celebrated contemporary artists dealing often in war and conflict, was appointed as the official British election artist. …”
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Que Nordeste é Este? Manguebeat, Intellectuals and Popular Music in the Making of the Brazilian Nordeste
Published 2019“…This thesis explores the manguebeat movement, making comparison with other historic and contemporary artists, intellectuals and movements from the local, national and international spheres. …”
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